With Gábor Boka, the director and the help of Miklós Both and the leading of Zeek the closing performance has to be put together. It's worth to peek into the rehearsals to see the process of the workshops. What will become for the closing ceremony of 30th April at 21.00? During the rehearsals a lot of details and solutions will come up which can't fit into the closing ceremony.

The white Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But a silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community in Greenland. Chemical residues from all over the world accumulate here invisibly, poisoning the inhabitants...

Winter Light is a film from the islands of Lofoten, north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. After weeks of low autumn light, the sun sinks below the horizon and stays there during the depth of winter. But the scarce light has its subtle beauty, as it falls on people's everyday life as well as the uniq...

There are no unanswered questions. Every problem has a reason.
If we identify the cause the problem can be solved in our minds.
When we have solved the problem theoretically we can create causes which are able to prepare our and other's mind for the practical solution.
Conversation with Attila Grandpierre astronomer, poet, musician, philosopher.

In case of good weather- which we hope will be- we imagine the afternoons of the festival as a Maypole Celebration welcoming summer and blossoming. While harvest and vintage somewhat still holds the tradition of community spirit, this specific period which preaches the revival of nature, blooming trees, meadows, seems to fade. We would like to draw attention to this beautiful times if the weather also cooperates. So our programmes will be held outside on the Danube waterfront, near the floodplain forest. We would like to build a "tradition" on this, so we don't want to mess the "natural decoration" up. We won't use aplification, stage, only the athmosphere amplifying people. But bring checked tablecloth, picnic basket and blankets.

MEDIAWAVE MAY DAY will be the sum of small and bigger entertaining programmes, relaxing and community building, permanent and time bound special programmes.

If the weather won't stand on our side the programmes will be held in the Danube tower of the Fort Monostor which will be a perfect venue in case of bad weather. (The Festival Cetre and the Cinema Rooms have also heating system!)

Usually, we throw out the useless odds and ends that accumulate around us. In the best case scenario we let them pile up in a corner where they wait in hopes of a more auspicious turn of fate. But there was once someone who took great offence at bein...

Three different characters arrive at the strange world of retail park, and in doing so enter a twisted game where how they appear to one another defense how they act. Grotesque picture about how the day off can become working one.

The gloomy dungeon of the Santo Oficio gaol in Logrono (Spain) is packed with prisoners accused of witchcraft. The sound of mystical chanting drifts out through the bars. It is a desperate cry for help that travels through valleys and mountains until...

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine, our body remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors. Our body sustains the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory?

Petrus, an old poet, lives in the "poetry shop" he closed a long time ago due to a lack of customers. Reclusive, he's fixed to his typewriter in a dark and filthy room. But bitterness and hatred have paralyzed his inspiration…

Two bodies, giants almost naked, advance slowly to a circle of clay. This graphic experience features the expressiveness of their bodies which are to repeat a sumo ritual. The two wrestlers are fighting in a lightning way through each of their deeds, which are the direct expression of their being the most exposed.

A man grows up and leaves his mother's home. During his life, all he dreams about is to come back home – to retrieve his past.
But a lot of things happens in, things that cannot be fixed: his mother grows old, the house where he was so happy f...

As an instrument. The design of musical gongs is such that much faster melodies can be played on them as well, their sound dies out faster than that of a bell. The instrument can be either installed to a place or portable. As a decorative element unlike bells, gongs can be assembled in any angles. It means that they can be installed as interactive ornaments on zhe facades of buildings, as an instrument onto the ceiling of rooms or by fountains as tiny mushrooms.

Chinese various nationalities' native culture is vanishing. The culture in painting, music, sculpture, or architecture has been fades gradually from most people, even the artists’ memory. With the development of western modernization, pursuing western modern civilization has already become the fashion in China. Western modern culture is developed on the basis of their traditional culture, and the modern culture of China is being developed in a manner to abandon Chinese traditional culture. Still, there is some small group of Chinese artists unwilling to give up their traditional and art forms. They think the real modern art and civilization should not abandon one's own national culture and the artistic characteristic as the cost, but should let the modern art form communicated with the traditional national culture, there could be better mutual development in the way.

Any nationality has the right to choose the suitable way for living and to develop one’s own culture. At present, the modern civilization progress not only unifies the way we live but also our culture, art and the mode of ideology.

Every nationality with their adaptive behavior, emotion, personality and life style determined their own culture and art form which were accumulated and endeavoring through thousands of years. But our current situation is incessant losing and forgetting these precious traditional national culture and art.

Which we don’t want to forget is not only the traditional national art form, but also are the national culture, national character and the life style between the national histories.

To preserve and hand down the national culture for generations will provide the right and opportunity for our descendant to chose the national culture and characteristic which were original belong to them.

Chinese various nationalities' native culture is vanishing. The culture in painting, music, sculpture, or architecture has been fades gradually from most people, even the artists’ memory. With the development of western modernization, pursuing western modern civilization has already become the...

Krzysztof Komeda – jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for “Rosemary´s Baby” by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. As a jazz pianist he gained cu...

The rehearsals of the music and dance workshop is lead by Miklós Both, the leader of Napra band. In the morning and in the afternoon for 3-3 hours in the armory of Fort Monostor. It's worth to peek into the rehearsals to see the process of the workshops. What will it become for the closing ceremony of 30th April at 21.00? During the rehearsals a lot of details and solutions will come up which can't fit into the closing ceremony.

We started the precessedor of MEDIAWAVE Festival, the interntaional jazz concert series in Győr in 1982 which was the first independent, civil organized concert series event during the years of socialism. (We didn't know that time the importance of our deeds, it became clear later. We only enjoed jazz and were enthusiastic about it.) Today we know that those concerts are part of the jazz and music history of Hungary which is justified by many musical studies. The main point was to bring the big members of american creative jazz and improvisation music to the isolated Hungary, like Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, the Rova Saxophone Quartett, etc. And we invited the similar minded Hungarian bands, too: György Szabados, Mihály Dresh, István Grencsó, Károly Binder. The concert series got a European echo, the audience came from all over the country and neighbouring contries until the series was stopped. The biggest help of the organizers (László Győrkős, Jenő Hartyándi, Károly Lázár) was the legendary leader of the Konfrontationen, Nckelsdorf, Hans Falb. We are currently expanding the archive folder of the concerts.

We recommend the following film for jazz lovers (Officer Hall 15:00)

Claudia BUTHENHOFF-DUFFY (Poland / Germany):

Komeda - a soundtrack for a life 52 min.Krzysztof Komeda was the greatest Polish jazz musician, pianist and composer in the 70's and 80's. The special talent, special style creator who didn't live for lon

g. Today's jazz icons grew up in his bands from Namyslowski till Tomas Stanko. His musical quality is proved by being in Hollywood after composing numerous not background music for later world famous Polish films.

The fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality, and finally, one last gesture of hope.
The film is based on the award winning play Jimmy, créature de r...

On a summer afternoon, a person spills coffee on himself, another feeds pigeons, another kills a bee, another dies, another copies patterns, another listens to the radio, another makes a phone call, another… And there may be certain connections among them all…

You have been thinking about leaving for years. Look at the photo. Again. You know where it is. A pigsty. Go. Kill him. Don't talk, say nothing. Whiskey. It's midnight. He can't explain it. She can't either. This city is rotten. Where is the life your parents promised you?

Emma and Carlos are unable to get over their misunderstanding relationship, but even then, they meet to fix it. Their meeting will turn into a brutal misunderstanding that will make them reconsider their ridiculous situation and start from scratch.

Just beside an endless white desert up in the Bolivian andes, Daniel and his family lead traditional salt worker´s lifes.
Since it has become known that Salar de Uyuni holds the worlds´s biggest amou...

The film Fjord was shot in Naroyfjord, one of the narrowest fjords of Western Norway. The fjord is one of the main tourist attractions in Norway, and the landscape was included in UNESCOs world heritage list in 2005.
The filmmaker Skule Eriksen wanted to explore visually why this landscape is so ...

In all the borders of Iran, smuggling of fuels is very prevailing that lots of people are engaged with it. Form and kind of equipments for carrying the smuggled cargo based on the geographical situation is different but in all the situations human beings have the most important role. The reasons for...

He founded his band in 2011. First they are playing jazz standards but slowly the saxophonist's own compositions displace these. His insiprations are great musicians: Thelonius Monk, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins. Although these compositions try to secede from the original creating a new and fresh athmosphere for the audience.

After thirteen years behind bars Nina (39) is released from prison and her search begins for finding a place in this world again. In a short period of time she finds a place to live and an underpaid job. The attempt to get in touch with her by now grown-up daughter confronts her with a stranger.

Northern Ireland. The troubles are over but have left their marks. Three boys on their way to adulthood testing their juvenile strength on animals, things and humans. Every day is different and yet, every day feels the same.

Somewhere...PLANET Z.
Vegetation is peacefully taking roots on the planet and everything seems to live in harmony.
But a sticky mushroom starts taking over the place insidiously, to finally destroy this ideal world.

In the highest building of a city empty of inhabitants, a man goes up the stairs. Out of breath, he sits down in the middle of the way. Suddenly, a man jumps over his head and rushes down the stairs. Paying no attention to this unexpected encounter, the first man continues his way up. Exhausted by ...

In this handmade film, composed of more than 4000 collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. Night Hunter evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drawn from allegory, myth and archetype. Music and sound by Larry Polansky.

She already sits there. All day long she could hear him.
She takes off. Finally walks into the kitchen (adding).
The shadow (us two) and the black flood.
She listens carefully (16.00 Hz).
And what is important stops existing (I can't be without you).

A young boy and his parents walk around in a carnival. The mother encourages her son to have a go on a ghost train, alone. Apprehensively, the child accepts. Across the tunnel, he will find himself in a real train where he will be confronted to himself and grow up.

"Viktor Toth is one of the most talented musicians in the young generation of jazz artists in Hungary" said the press when reviewing his 2007 Climbing with Mountains, which, incidentally, won best jazz album of the same year. Viktor Tóth earned the title jazzman of the year 2010 on Fidelio's countrywide online poll in 2011. Despite this, he still sees himself as a truth seeker and with his musical endeavors seeks to reach oneness with universal harmony. As Toth has played with such internationally renowned musicians as Hamid Drake (drums), Henry Franklyn (bass), William Parker (bass) and Mihaly Dresch (sax)...

In the early 1970s, Ulmer joined Ornette Coleman; he was the first electric guitarist to record and tour extensively with Coleman. He has credited Coleman as a major influence, and Coleman's strong reliance on electric guitar in his fusion-oriented recordings owes a distinct debt to Ulmer.
He formed a group called the Music Revelation Ensemble with David Murray and Ronald Shannon Jackson, with whom he recorded throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Different incarnations of the group also featured Julius Hemphill, Arthur Blythe, Sam Rivers, and Hamiet Bluiett on saxophones and flutes. In the 1980s he co-led, with saxophonist George Adams, the ensemble Phalanx.

Albert has to wake up to the ringing of his wife's cell phone. It takes him quiet an effort to get it from her reticule because it is full of other strange things. Finally he brings the mobile to his wife... who might not be who she seems.

Somewhere between life and death a thrilling chess match takes place. The stake is high - a gateway to the world of living. And the sole referee of this exciting tournament is a figure no one wish to meet in their path.

''What if a man starts eating everything to assuage his hunger like eating up fast food in a world where needless and useless knowledge as well as smattering invades in people’s brains and also leaves them hungry?''

‫Is it possible to walk through life, believing you only have one single persona? Is it possible to be real and genuine all the time and at all cost? And is there such a thing as “Real”?
An old lady is forced to leave her comfort house to buy a new milk carton at the near grocery store...

“Good news, Bad news” is a story about the world inhabited by people without the hope of better days to come, about the world divided into those who have power and money and those who have nothing. However, there comes a day when everything becomes possible. The main protagonist, a worke...

Following some harmless children‘s game, Agnieska experiences a family breakup which causes her to withdraw into herself. The events she goes through in her loneliness allow her to finally reconnect with her mother and to come out of seclusion.

A young boy, the name-less, lives apart from the world, in a place he helped to create, both protected and shut in. One day, aroused by sounds and images from the outside, he decides to leave and explore the world. He then has to face the wrath of his abandoned creation and his fear of the unknown. ...

In a desolate bar at the end of the world, a place nobody ever reaches, a barmen and a waitress play "Battleship". The game goes on in unchanging routine, out of boredom and without attributing any importance to the result.
But in another reality, a reality which does not include the bar, the prog...

It is a sensitive and atmospheric film about Hungarian rickshaw taxi drivers, who work on the sinful streets of Amsterdam. A ketch of an age about emigration from east to the west: a documentary about money and freedom, about riding and chilling and about days and nights in the touristic city center...

In his new film Marcin Koszalka returns to a forgotten genre, namely a mountain film. The protagonist of his story is Piotr "Mad" Korczak, somewhere in the background there is his rival Andrzej Marcisz. The director focuses on the decline of the care...

In the era of individual “star” instrumentalists, the idea of a truly collective trio can be a difficult concept to fathom. Yet collectivity is what the FLY trio strives for; and collectivity is what they so unabashedly and unquestionably achieve. Ballard, Grenadier and Turner represent three rather distinct musical personalities- simultaneously complimentary and contrasting –who have created a cohesive unit that expresses each part while creating an uniquely realized whole. In other words, they celebrate the group, without sacrificing the individual.

The quartett usually plays with piano where they play their own music but now they are coming with a guitar and play mainstream jazz. In 2008 - in a quintett form - they shared first prize on the Jazz Festival competition Balatonfüred.

From swing to nujazz musical delicacies of 70 years will speak up during the night. Remixes and the usual elecrtonic style will favour the audience. The bakelites will slowly turn on the dance music so be prepared.

Crossover which somehow always winks at jazz. The group (mainly) consists of 8 members and bulind its musical cathedral on funk, latin, jazz and who knows what else. On top the newly found singer, Márta Molnár shines. Real danceable club music with concrete rhythm section, winds and celesta. It's allowed to dance.

During the first stage in Kisharsány the slam poetry performaces around the fire were a big success. We don't know how but they didn't become pioneer like and people loved it! And slammers had the opportunity to show their progress.